Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With squint look; by side-glances.

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  • adverb While squinting.

Etymologies

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squinting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The literature of twentieth-century totalitarianism, whether in prefiguring the epoch of Nazism and Stalinism or in drawing on it, often relied on un homme moyen sensuel — the luckless particle swept up in the process, or the worm from whose eye the titanic, forbidding edifice could be squintingly, even cringingly, scrutinized.

    Survivor 2004

  • The literature of twentieth-century totalitarianism, whether in prefiguring the epoch of Nazism and Stalinism or in drawing on it, often relied on un homme moyen sensuel — the luckless particle swept up in the process, or the worm from whose eye the titanic, forbidding edifice could be squintingly, even cringingly, scrutinized.

    Survivor 2004

  • Eve Edgarton and three sweating horses waited squintingly in the dust.

    Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • With his own heart tuned already to the heart-throb of an engine, his pale eyes focused squintingly toward expected novelties, his thin nostrils half a-sniff with the first salty scent of the Far-Away, Mr. Edgarton, whatever his intentions, was not the most ideal of sick-room companions.

    Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro manages to pack loads of features into an eye-squintingly small package, just like its sibling, the

    Crave at CNET UK 2010

  • But two things I will say: First, before the win the gloomier amongst us (guilty, m'lud) began looking down rather than up, but three points means we can now look up again, albeit squintingly.

    East Lower RotorGoat 2010

  • The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro manages to pack loads of features into an eye-squintingly small package, just like its sibling, the

    Crave at CNET UK 2010

  • He hugged Idong Ibok, dabbed at his eyes before congratulating Marquise Gray, watched squintingly as a highlight video of Goran Suton played on the scoreboard above, and smiled proudly when heart-and-soul team captain Travis Walton took the floor to help raise MSU's championship banner.

    unknown title 2009

  • Two mumbling junkies on a bed, a man and woman equally sort of squintingly attentive to the needle that’s angled in her arm.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Two mumbling junkies on a bed, a man and woman equally sort of squintingly attentive to the needle that’s angled in her arm.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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